Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similarities between the Community Health Plan and conventional insurance end at that simplistic level. The plan does retain the insurance ethic of prepayment for guaranteed benefits. But the new system the plan has devised for dispensing the benefits adds up to a totally different approach to mass medical care...
...Harvard. "It's not easy to ring doorbells for someone nobody has ever heard of before," Schumer admitted. "But you know how SDS keeps going? They get a core of 25 people to work full time on some project. I've never seen a group with so much Protestant ethic." Club officers hope, perhaps mistakenly, that McCarthyism without McCarthy can whip up campus enthusiasm for Council elections and busy-work democracy...
...evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive," says Laing. "You have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder." He calls We-Them "the ethic of the Gadarene swine," and its cataclysmic credo is "to remain true, one for all and all for one, as we plunge in brotherhood to our destruction...
Rock musicians are the bastard offspring of Horatio Alger, just as the hip movement is the enfant naturel of the middle class. The success ethic, entrepreneurial impulse, and belligerent independence of the robber barons are stamped indelibly in their acid-mutated genes as surely as in Lyndon Johnson's. The musicians wanted to make it, but the only possible way seemed to be to deny that they wanted to make it. All the accoutrements of the hip life in rock were reminders that you were first and foremost a Beautiful Person, with loyalties not to entertainment but to other Beautiful...
Applying the ethic of motives to one's own behavior one starts with the assumption that the best and most worthy motive is ensuring the welfare of the greatest number of people. With this motive one is freed from total, slavish devotion to all other rules. This is a horrifying freedom and one must immediately temper it with a sober assessment, springing from the ethic of responsibility of how means and ends ought to be reconciled, fortified by the knowledge that the ethic of ultimate ends will, at some moment, forbid further compromise...